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Originally Posted by ThisIsAnOutrage
If three posts is a lot of time, then, okay, a lot of time.
Obviously,.I can only speak for me on this one, plus I am not living in the US, so I wouldn't extrapolate from this to others
I want to know what I'm getting, from any candidate. Trump, right now is the devil we know. We also know that a lot of the old guard members of his previous administration are gone, fired or retired. There won't be as much to hold him back this time. His personal whims will dictate a lot of things. I can do the math when it comes to him, maybe a Dem. controlles house or senate can keep him in check until he hits his lame duck period. Heck, fractured republican party might even do that.
I don't know what I get with Harris. Former DA, Attourney General, low profile/sidelined as a VP. (contrast to Cheney, there was a VP who let you know what you were getting).
So, what does possibly 8 years of a Harris administration look like? That's what I'm waiting to find. That's why I don't like her mushy/evasive interview, why I think ahe is a bad candidate .
You know the saying, when someone tells you who they are believe them? There should.be another when, when someone won't tell you who they are, don't believe them.
I appreciate your relatively insult-free inquiry on the topic. It's rare in this thread.
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Beyond Cheney (who was a literal war criminal and evil mastermind, so I'm not sure I want future VPs having the kind of power that man had), can you really tell me what previous VPs have done? They're generally just there in case the President dies, or as a tiebreaker vote in a 50/50 senate. Otherwise really, what VP has ever really been a standout? What did Pence do? What did VP Biden do that was notable (outside of some pretty high profile gaffes)? What did Gore do? etc etc.
As for her time as DA/AG: for as much as the GOP talks about protecting children, she actually did it? Like she prosecuted people who had assaulted children.
I also really love her project to assist young, low-level/non-violent drug offenders, in a way that got them job assistance/etc, to reduce recidivism, so that instead of taxpayer dollars keeping minor criminals in jail, it actually helped them to stay out of jail. It's a bit of reform that I would love to see happen on the broader scale.
Her proposed economic/tax policies are reminiscent of Bill Clinton's and for any of his other flaws as a president/human being, his administration was the last time the US had a surplus.
She would support access to a woman's right to choose, she supports LGBTQ+ rights, she wouldn't put right-wing, Christian Nationalist ideological nutjobs on the Supreme Court.
Beyond that, given her VP pick, she has proven that she will listen to the more left voices of the Dem coalition, which is sorely needed. She's certainly not perfect in that regard, of course, but she skipped the obvious/traditional Dem choice of Shapiro for the farther left/more progressive Walz, which is a good sign.
The thing is she actually has said quite a bit, and she has given far, far more policy detail than Trump has, but she's held to an entirely different standard than he is.